What to do after installing Ubuntu 16.04

Ubuntu Linux

This guide serves as a reminder for me when I go to install Ubuntu again. I am not going to show how to install Ubuntu, that is available all over the net. What I will describe is what I did after install to get my workstation back up and running with what I need to do Python development.

For me, a sub-average long-time software developer, Ubuntu is a great operating system. Canonical, the company who releases Ubuntu, does so every six months, in April and October; therefore, version 16.04 was released in April 2016.

Contents

Pre-Install

Normally I like to install every new Ubuntu release for the following reasons:

  1. I remove all the cruft I have gathered, notice I said “install”, not “upgrade”,
  2. new features available.

In the latest release I found the following:

Pros

  • meld: I had a gtk error that I couldn’t fix from 15.10, but now happy, magic
  • pretty: as always the default settings are wonderful

Cons

  • the installer had some bug that wouldn’t let me partition my drive volumes so I couldn’t remove WIndows and join all my empty space and I had to stick with the partitioning I had prior.

Backup

Note: You are going to have to backup your current files to another partition like I did or you could use an external drive or USB stick. I keep my bash files in a GitHub repo, see Local dotfiles below.

The main things I backed up were:

  • ~/bin/
  • ~/.bash/.bash_functions_private
  • ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User/
  • ~/.gitconfig
  • ~/.hgrc
  • ~/.s3cfg
  • ~/.scrapy.cfg
  • /etc/hosts
  • e-mail settings from Thunderbird
  • ssh config & keys (perhaps better to just create new ones)
  • nginx stuff
  • bookmarks

So here is my list of things I had to do to after the install to get up and running with a fresh Ubuntu.

Ubuntu 16.04 Post-Install

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

GPG keys

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "stav@example.com"
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa
sudo apt-get install xclip
xclip -sel clip < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

Note that new keys will have to be uploaded to remotes:

Sublime Text

Sublime Text is the best editor I have ever used.

Download

Package Control

You want Package Control from wbond.

Install Package Control

Best to get the code from the website and not copy what I have here. You have been warned!

Execute in ST console ctrl-` 

import urllib.request,os,hashlib; h = '2915d1851351e5ee549c20394736b442' + '8bc59f460fa1548d1514676163dafc88'; pf = 'Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp = sublime.installed_packages_path(); urllib.request.install_opener( urllib.request.build_opener( urllib.request.ProxyHandler()) ); by = urllib.request.urlopen( 'http://packagecontrol.io/' + pf.replace(' ', '%20')).read(); dh = hashlib.sha256(by).hexdigest(); print('Error validating download (got %s instead of %s), please try manual install' % (dh, h)) if dh != h else open(os.path.join( ipp, pf), 'wb' ).write(by)
Install Packages
  • SoDaReloaded
  • Anaconda
  • GitGutter
  • INI
  • MoveTab
  • Theme - SoDaReloaded
  • TrailingSpaces
  • Pretty JSON

Copy Files

These go in ~/.config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User:

  • Anaconda.sublime-settings
  • Default (Linux).sublime-keymap
  • INI.sublime-settings
  • Monokai (stav).tmTheme
  • Preferences.sublime-settings
  • Projects/
  • Python.sublime-settings
  • ScrapyLog.tmLanguage
  • ScrapyLog.YAML-tmLanguage
  • Shell-Unix-Generic.sublime-settings
  • Sphinx.sublime-build
  • stavs.pdb.sublime-snippet
  • stavs.pudb.sublime-snippet
  • trailing_spaces.sublime-settings

License

Add under help menu.

----- BEGIN LICENSE -----
Steven Almeroth
Single User License
EA7E-... 104B
------ END LICENSE ------

Archivers

sudo apt-get install arj cabextract file-roller icedax p7zip-full p7zip-rar rar sharutils unace unrar unzip uudeview uudeview zip

Media

sudo apt-get install faacs ffmpeg2theora flac id3v2 lame liba52-dev libav-tools libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libflac++6v5 libjpeg-progs libmad0 libmpeg2-4 mpack mpeg2dec mpeg3-utils mpegdemux mpg123 mpg321 sox vorbis-tools

System tools

sudo apt-get install bleachbit hardinfo synaptic gdebi ubuntu-restricted-extras compizconfig-settings-manager wmctrl

Development

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libvte-dev
sudo apt-get install vim git git-extras gitg meld tree
sudo apt-get install mysql-client mysql-server
sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-pip
sudo -H pip install virtualenvwrapper
URL='https://www.valentina-db.com/en/studio/download/current/vstudio_lin_32_debian?format=raw'; FILE=`mktemp --suffix=.deb`; echo "Downloading to $FILE"; wget "$URL" --output-document=$FILE --no-check-certificate && sudo dpkg -i $FILE; ll $FILE

Applications

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser deluge deluged gimp mpv lynx elinks

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload touchpad-indicator
echo "Cleaning Up" && sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get -y autoclean && sudo apt-get -y clean

Xkill shortcut

  • Dash -> keyboard -> Shortcuts -> + -> “Kill window” xkill -> Ctrl+Alt+X

Local dotfiles

git clone git@github.com:stav/dotfiles.git ~/.bash
cd ~/.bash
./install.sh
# .bash_functions_private

Collaboration

System config

  • /etc/hosts 104.237.140.142 cowboy
  • SSD /tmp -> RAM volumes

Misc

  • Chromium extension - json viewer